Topaz Street

Topaz Street is a street in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, running along the north end of Central Park from FDR Drive to the George Washington Bridge. The street's notable landmarks included a Burger King restaurant, the East Harlem NYPD station, an HSBC building, and an underground car park. Topaz Street was once very important, with the NYPD refusing to go north of the street for their own safety; during the 1980s and 1990s, Harlem and East Harlem were no-go zones. Topaz Street would later lose some of its criminal significance as the crime rates dropped in these neighborhoods.